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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 8
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The ark, containing the two tablets of stone, is placed in the holy of holies—The glory of the Lord fills the temple—Solomon offers dedicatory prayer—He asks for temporal and spiritual blessings upon repentant and prayerful Israel—The people sacrifice and worship for fourteen days.
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Then</span> Solomon assembled the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 5: 2 (2-10, 14).">elders</a> of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/1b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB princes, leaders.">chief</a> of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> out of the city of David, which <i>is</i> Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 23: 34; 1 Kgs. 8: 65; 2 Chr. 7: 8 (8-10).">feast</a> in the month Ethanim, which <i>is</i> the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 4: 15; 2 Chr. 5: 5 (4-5).">priests</a> took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that <i>were</i> in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
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And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, <i>were</i> with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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And the priests brought in the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 26: 33 (33-34).">ark</a> of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 16.">holy</a> <i>place, even</i> under the wings of the cherubims.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cherubim.">cherubims</a> spread forth <i>their</i> two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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And they drew out the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 15.">staves</a>, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy <i>place</i> before the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 5.">oracle</a>, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
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<i>There was</i> nothing in the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ark of the Covenant.">ark</a> save the two <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/9b" mark="b" type="C" title="Ex. 25: 21; Ex. 40: 20; 1 Kgs. 8: 21; TG Law of Moses; TG Scriptures, Preservation.">tables</a> of stone, which Moses put there at <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 3: 12 (1, 12); Deut. 1: 6 (5-8); Deut. 4: 10 (10-13).">Horeb</a>, when the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made <i>a covenant</i> with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy <i>place,</i> that the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 84: 5; TG God, Manifestations of.">cloud</a> filled the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 43: 5; Ezek. 44: 4; D&C 94: 8; D&C 109: 12.">glory</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had filled the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Then spake <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 6: 1 (1-42).">Solomon</a>, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said that he would dwell in the thick <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 97: 2.">darkness</a>.
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I have surely <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 7: 13.">built</a> thee an <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 109: 12.">house</a> to dwell in, a settled place for thee to <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 17; 2 Sam. 6: 18.">abide</a> in for ever.
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And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
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And he said, Blessed <i>be</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled <i>it,</i> saying,
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Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 16: 1.">David</a> to be over my people Israel.
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And it was in the heart of David my father to build an <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 109: 8.">house</a> for the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 124: 22.">house</a> unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
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Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 7: 12 (12-13).">son</a> that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> promised, and have built an house for the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein <i>is</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 26; 1 Kgs. 8: 9.">covenant</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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&#182; And Solomon stood before the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 9: 29 (29-33).">spread</a> forth his hands toward heaven:
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And he said, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 6: 14 (12-42); D&C 109: 1 (1-80)."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> God of Israel, <i>there is</i> no <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 39; 1 Sam. 2: 2 (1-10); 2 Sam. 7: 22; Ps. 71: 19.">God</a> like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/23c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 9; D&C 54: 6; D&C 82: 10.">keepest</a> covenant and mercy with thy servants that <sup>d</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/23d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> before thee with all their heart:
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Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled <i>it</i> with thine hand, as <i>it is</i> this day.
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Therefore now, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB if only thy  . . .">so</a> that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
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And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth?  behold, the heaven and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 2: 6.">heaven</a> of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
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Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
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That thine eyes may be open toward this <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 1.">house</a> night and day, <i>even</i> toward the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 5 (5-28); Deut. 15: 20; Deut. 17: 8 (8-17); Deut. 26: 2 (1-11); 2 Chr. 7: 12.">place</a> of which thou hast said, My <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/29c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 4; D&C 18: 40 (21-41); D&C 20: 36; D&C 97: 15 (15-17); D&C 109: 26 (16-26).">name</a> shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the <sup>d</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/29d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 109: 8.">prayer</a> which thy servant shall make toward this place.
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And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
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&#182; If any man trespass against his neighbour, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/31a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR he require an oath of him; Ex. 22: 11.">an</a> oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
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Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>.
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&#182; When thy people Israel be <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 17.">smitten</a> down before the enemy, because they have <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/33b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 103: 8.">sinned</a> against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
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Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
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&#182; When heaven is <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 11: 17 (10-18); Ether 4: 9; D&C 77: 8.">shut</a> up, and there is no <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/35b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 11: 4 (3-5).">rain</a>, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
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Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 27: 11; Ps. 86: 11; 2 Ne. 25: 28; 2 Ne. 33: 10.">teach</a> them the good way wherein they should <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/36b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 12: 23 (16-23).">walk</a>, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
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&#182; If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, <i>or</i> if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/37a" mark="a" type="D" title="Septuagint: any of their cities.">the</a> land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/37b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sickness.">sickness</a> <i>there be;</i>
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What prayer and supplication soever be <i>made</i> by any man, <i>or</i> by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
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Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, <i>even</i> thou only, knowest the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/39a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 6: 16.">hearts</a> of all the children of men;)
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That they may <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 130: 4.">fear</a> thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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Moreover concerning a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/41a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">stranger</a>, that <i>is</i> not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/41b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 2 (2-4); D&C 64: 42 (42-43).">country</a> for thy name’s sake;
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(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/42a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 24.">hand</a>, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
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Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/43a" mark="a" type="C" title="Josh. 4: 24; TG Israel, Mission of; TG Name.">know</a> thy name, to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/43b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 64: 43.">fear</a> thee, as <i>do</i> thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
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&#182; If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/44a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 33.">send</a> them, and shall pray unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> toward the city which thou hast chosen, and <i>toward</i> the house that I have built for thy name:
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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If they sin against thee, (for <i>there is</i> no man that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/46a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sinneth</a> not,) and thou be angry with them, and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/46b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 12: 2 (2-9).">deliver</a> them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/46c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 44.">enemy</a>, far or near;
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<i>Yet</i> if they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/47a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE consider it in their heart.">bethink</a> themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/47b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 7: 6; Dan. 9: 5.">sinned</a>, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
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And <i>so</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/48a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 29: 12 (12-14).">return</a> unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/48b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 5: 7; Dan. 6: 10.">land</a>, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
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Then <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/49a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 21: 15.">hear</a> thou their prayer and their supplication in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/49b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Heaven.">heaven</a> thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
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And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
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For they <i>be</i> thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/51a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 13; 2 Ne. 3: 9; 2 Ne. 8: 16; 2 Ne. 29: 14; 3 Ne. 16: 8 (8-15); 3 Ne. 20: 21 (15-21, 39); 3 Ne. 21: 23 (12-24).">people</a>, and thine <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/51b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Inheritance.">inheritance</a>, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
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That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
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For thou didst <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/53a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 16; Lev. 20: 24; John 17: 6 (6-22); 3 Ne. 15: 19 (19-20).">separate</a> them from among all the people of the earth, <i>to be</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/53b" mark="b" type="A" title="Moses 1: 26.">thine</a> inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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And it was <i>so,</i> that when Solomon had made an end of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/54a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 7: 1 (1-3); D&C 109: 4 (1-80).">praying</a> all this prayer and supplication unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, he arose from before the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
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And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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Blessed <i>be</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/56a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 21: 45; Matt. 24: 35; 1 Ne. 20: 14; 2 Ne. 10: 17; D&C 1: 38; D&C 64: 31; D&C 76: 3; D&C 101: 64.">failed</a> one <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/56b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 16; Moses 4: 30.">word</a> of all his good <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/56c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Promises.">promise</a>, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
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That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
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And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, be nigh unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
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That all the people of the earth may <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/60a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Mission of.">know</a> that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/60b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 35 (35, 39).">God</a>, <i>and that there is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/60c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 5: 8; D&C 76: 1; Moses 1: 6.">none</a> else.
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Let your <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/61a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 7: 18.">heart</a> therefore be <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/61b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Chr. 28: 9.">perfect</a> with the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
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&#182; And the king, and all Israel with him, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/62a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 7: 4 (4-10); Moses 5: 5.">offered</a> sacrifice before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Solomon offered a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/63a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sacrifice.">sacrifice</a> of peace offerings, which he offered unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep.  So the king and all the children of Israel <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/63b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Dedication.">dedicated</a> the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that <i>was</i> before the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/64a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 4: 1.">brasen</a> altar that <i>was</i> before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>was</i> too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
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And at that time Solomon held a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/65a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 23: 34; 1 Kgs. 8: 2.">feast</a>, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/65b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE approach, entrance.">entering</a> in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, seven days and seven days, <i>even</i> fourteen days.
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On the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/8/66a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 7: 9 (8-10).">eighth</a> day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
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